Graduate unemployment in South Africa has risen to 12.2%. The problem is a skills mismatch, not qualifications.
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South Africa’s top universities have stopped policing AI and started redesigning how they teach, assess and certify.
BlackBerry lost while it was winning. South Africa’s would-be IoT platforms should heed the warning.
South Africa’s private sector returned to marginal growth in June, but business optimism sank to a five-year low.
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Government is in talks with potential investors in green hydrogen projects, with Germany having identified the country as a key source of the fuel.
Tshwane has begun cutting off electricity and other services to customers whose outstanding debts it said have grown to unsustainable levels.
Even as Telkom heads to court, South Africa’s auction of broadband spectrum will take place next month, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his state of the nation address.
The JSE has censured two former directors of Ayo Technology Solutions, publicly berating them and banning them from serving as directors for five years.
The news earlier this week that Apple plans to allow merchants to accept contactless payments directly on iPhones has stirred a great a deal of interest.
MTN South Africa has launched new prepaid plans aimed at informal traders and other small businesses, with prices starting at R49.
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The US’s fight against Huawei justifies Russia’s decision to build a “sovereign Internet” to protect its domestic network from external threats, according to Russian deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov.
China’s planned technology security management system could strengthen control on exports including high-end intellectual property, according to state media commentary.
A senior White House official is seeking to delay putting in place portions of a law that limits the US government’s business with China’s Huawei, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Salesforce.com has agreed to buy Tableau Software in an all-stock deal valued at US$15.3-billion in a major bid to build its analytics offering.
With more than 16m tracks, 2m albums and 650 000 artists, Simfy is a fully fledged music streaming service that stacks up incredibly well against rivals Spotify, Rhapsody and Rdio. From next week it’s available in SA – without the need for a foreign credit card, a virtual private network, or any of the other digital
The department of science & technology has had a tax incentive programme in place since 2007. It’s meant to encourage research and development (R&D), but few companies are aware of it and are losing billions of rand in tax rebates in the process. Dov Paluch, MD of Catalyst Solutions, a company
